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I have a simple image gallery where I want to allow users to delete files.
The problem I have is that after an image is displayed in the browser, I am
not able to delete the file because "The process cannot access the file ...
It is being used by another process". I also get this error when trying to
delete through explorer on the server. I can delete the file if I stop the
Web Server service... Is there a way around this?

Here is the code that fails:
System.IO.File. Delete(Page.Map Path(path_ &
clickedLink.Att ributes.Item("p hoto_file")))
System.IO.File. Delete(Page.Map Path(path_ & "Thumbs/" &
clickedLink.Att ributes.Item("p hoto_file")))
Nov 18 '05 #1
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 09:13:04 -0700, Matt Hamilton
<Ma**********@d iscussions.micr osoft.com> wrote:
I have a simple image gallery where I want to allow users to delete
files.
The problem I have is that after an image is displayed in the browser, I
am
not able to delete the file because "The process cannot access the file
...
It is being used by another process". I also get this error when trying
to
delete through explorer on the server. I can delete the file if I stop
the
Web Server service... Is there a way around this?

Here is the code that fails:
System.IO.File. Delete(Page.Map Path(path_ &
clickedLink.Att ributes.Item("p hoto_file")))
System.IO.File. Delete(Page.Map Path(path_ & "Thumbs/" &
clickedLink.Att ributes.Item("p hoto_file")))


How are you displaying the images? In Windows apps this can happen using
some controls that lock the file....I usually load images into memory this
way:

Dim fs As New FileStream(Serv er.MapPath(imag eSrc), FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read )
Dim image As System.Drawing. Image = System.Drawing. Image.FromStrea m(fs)

then do as I want with it...

--
Craig Deelsnyder
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET
Nov 18 '05 #2

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